Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-05-19
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been done along the South Shore railroad
In the Menominee lumber district
Extensive forest fires are reported In |
various portions OF Massachusetts,. nre
which started Wednesday week, near COL
lius' OfossIna, on Cape God, had, at last
accounts, burned over several thousand
acres and traversed distance OF 10 miles
A fire In New Boston, N. H., Wednes-
day afternoon week, destroyed the Town
House, church, two ohapels, two stores
and seven dwellings,. A woman named
Flanders was dangerously burned. The
loss on property Ia $40,OOo; insurance,
$15, 600.
True Ibills were Monday found by the
grand jury in Philadelphia against Mary
Hannah Tabbs, oolored, and George II.
Wilson, colored, for the murder OF Wake
field Gains. They pleaded not guilty
upon being srrsigned, aud their trial was
Fixed for the 3ist inst.
At Willis, Texas, early Sunday morn.
ing, an armed mob broke into the jail
and opened fire on Andrew McGeche and
j. b. Walker, charged with shooting q
Young man named Powell. MoGeohe was
hHDI uGAtlt anu Whthpt bhAby WpuAoN1l
but the latter may recover.
At Emporia, Kansas, on Saturday, tho
Jury in the case of Marlborough, charged
with killing the son Of Robert Laird
Collier, returned q verdict of guilty of
murder in the first degree. During the
night Marlborough attempted suicide by
cutting his throat, and his recovery is
doubtful.
The supreme court OF Massachusetts
last week declared the law Of that state
prohibiting the registration Of naturalized
citizens as voters within 80 days after
naturalization TO be unconstitutional, in
asmuoh as II withholds constitutional
right. Judge Devens delivered the
opinion of the full bench.
The coroner-stone of 81. Patrick's
Catholic Church was laid Sunday at
Elizabethport, N. j., in presence Of
10, 900 people. Bishop Wigger ofieiated,
and was assisted by the Right Rev. Hilary
Pfraegle Abbot OF st. Mary's, Newark.
The Rev. Father Cody preached. The
church is to be of granite, and to cost
$500, 600.
While four men were cleaning out an
Olu Wblk ~ 1ts DhuNouAt Nhobooi Oh W.
nesday week two of them fell in. The
others, trying to rescue their companions,
also fell into the we'll. Joseph Gaspard,
Joseph Buster and Francis Buster per-
ished OF suffocation and drowning. The
fourth man was saved in an unconscious
condition.
The Tucson, Arizona, Citizen Wednes.
i day week published O letter datid SahuR-
ripa, Sonora, Mexico, April 18th, and
| signed j. ID. Garcia. The writer says he
is an American citizen, and that last Sun
day be was accosted by the project Of the
district, who asked him to vote for him
at the election then being held. Mr.
Garcia refused, on the ground that ht
was an American, whereupon the prefeo
sent him to Jail, where he has been eve
since with scarcely any sustenance.
The governor of Texas Thursday re
ceived petition from the officers O.
Medina county asking special session o
the Legislature to provide for famishin,
people in Medina, Frio, Atacosa and por
tons Of BexRr, Edwards, Uvalde and Ban
dera counties. The mass of the peopl
arc represented as having mo money, n,
credit, no crop prospects and nopropert,
that can be sold, pledged or mortgaged,
and many Of them are living on hal
rations of corn bread aud tank water.
monument bearing memorial table
to General Sedgwick was unveiled Thurs
day by the Sixth Army Corps on the bat
tlefield of Spottsylvania Court House, il
Virginia. Gen, Il. G.. Wright delivere,
an address, and letters were read from
President Cleveland, the governors o
Connecticut, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York AM
Massachusetts and the mayor Of Philadel
phia, as well as from Generals Sheridan
Sherman and others. General j. W
IIatta Of Pennsylvania, was the orator o
the day.
Policeman Julian Arnold was sho
dead, and Ernest /. Padgett,a companion
was wounded in Alexandria, Virginia
shaTt i if5iues Sunday u fplI,. Si,l
trying 10 arrest two nj vhDM the
overheard planning 10 Wiz
they called on the men TO surrender bot
; drew revolvers and fired. The one VIII
shot Arnold escaped, the other, who ha
struggle with Padgett, was captured
and identified as John Curran OF Wasl
ington. He refused to tell the name Z
his accomplish.
The Protestant Episcopal Conyentio
Of South Carolina met Thursday i
; Charleston. The old question of the az
. mission of colored clergy was revived o
a motion 10 strike out the name of Ii
. Rev. Mr.. Pollard, Rector of st. Mark
. Colored Episcopal Church, Charleston
from the bishops list of clerical deleRate
. The question caused split in the col
vention, on Saturday. The seceders wi
issue a manifesto to the parishes on Il
subject OF the existing differences. I'll
convention adjourned to raeet in Ande
. son next year.
. At a banquet of the Chamber of Cor
meroe Of New Haven Wednesday eve
ing week senator Hawley, responding
the toast The President Of the Unite
States" said: 1t is our especial prit
that we, as Americans, recognize hi
who received the greater number
votes, irrespective of politics. as o,
4 President, the executor of the will
6O millions of free people. l, as {
/. American, take pride in saluting Pre-
ldent OF the United States, Whatever b
. politics. am ready to compare h
Presidents of the United States for d
: past hundred years with the rulers
i any nation for the same period and ha,
no fear of the result.n
!, The Blue Laws of New York VIA
!; even more rigldly, enforced Sunday III,
a on the preceding Sunday. There was 1
i enormous business done by the saloo
/ Keepers on the New Jersey side, whe
j. beer could be had and music listened
!. while drinking 1t. In New York some
l. the guests at the hotels, who are aeon
toned to drinking wine at their meal
i bought the beverage on Saturday Az
! yesterday brought the bottles from tha
: rooms to the tables, the walters furnisbi,
: ice. During the day 65 arrests were ma,
:. for violation of the Excise law. The a.
: man hnging societies bold an indignatic
I meeting 70 denounce the laws relating
!. music and beer. Under the Cantor amen
v ment they are not allowed to drink be
81 their rehearsals unless the proprietor
I. the hall has concert license. This cos
9 ToOO and the condition of things Is ther
n fore as bad as before. " '''e'
: Natural gas with strong PRESSURE w
siruek tuesday at &enia, o., at q depth
d II. U. Prister, who was a member of III
gress from 1878 to 1882, died at his home
+ Maysville, Kyp on Monday, aged 65 YEA,
!, BID. Waters deputy constable al Kama
Il City, Missouri, found d white substance
Q the pump chain Of his cistern on Monda
9 me city chemist pronounced the powd
arsenic, and said there was enough Of II
II XIII the whole neighborhood. y
I A telegram from Bethlehem. Pa. say
4 Investigation shows that the hotela vbs
I Sno eoiored members Of the Reading Socl
nup were refused accommodations Ia
= where they applied for accommodatioI
q tney were told to wait until the propriet
% came. lnf fbaNy AfA nk fANFhAot